Wire fence.



PATENTED JAN. 3l, 1905.

J. HEWITT.

WIRE FENCE.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 21. 1902. BENBWBD AUG. s, 1904.

v ,wi-f' 07%/ Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT einen.

JOHN HFVIT", OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,602, dated January 31, 1905.

Application filed July 2l, 1902. Renewed August 8,1904. Serial No. 219,913.

T0 all whom, it may colte/17%:

Be it known that I, JOHN I-Inwir'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cool( and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in VWire Felices, of which the following is a speciteation.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of wire fences wherein the fencewires are united together by short wire stays having' their ends wrapped around the Vfencewires.

The invention is intended more particularly to facilitate the act of wrapping the ends of the stays around the fence-wires; and it consists in the novel features hereinafter set forth, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

In said drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a port-ion of my improved fence. Fig. 2 shows the stay as it appears when lirst cut. Fig. 3 shows the stay as bent preparatory to application to the Afence-wires. Fig. et is a section of the fence on the line -I l of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a modification of the construction shown at Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, 5 5 represent the fence-wire strands, and 6 6 the stays by which the wires are united. The stays are made from continuous lengths of wire by inclined or diagonal cuts, as will be understood from Fig. Q, forming the bevel-points Y at the ends. After being thus cut both ends are doubled over so as to Vform the hooks S, as shown at Fig. 3, the beiiding at both ends being in the same directionthat is, upon the same side of the stay and in such direction as to bring the bevels T at the side rather than at the inner or outer face of thehools. This also clearly appears in Fig. 3. The hooks 8 enable the stays to be readily placed in position on and between adjacent strand-wires, and after the stays are thus positioned the hooks are closed inte eyes by bending the beveled extremities of the hooks by any suitable tool, so that the eyes completely inelose the fence strand-wires and bind the latter securely. In imparting this closing-bend to the points I carry them far enough and at the same time deiiect them laterally, so they pass er lap by the body of the stay upon opposite sides of the same, as

seen at Figs. l and si, and in this operation the bevels play an important part, because their extremeties do not need to be deliectcd by the closing-tool in order to enable them to avoid interference with the body, or at all events they need but little aid in the dellecting movement. This is due to the fact that the body and point are so shaped that they coact in imparting or assisting the deflection, the wrapping' taking place in a direction sidewise rather than facewise of the bevels, so that the extreme point of the bevel first encounters the rounded side of the stay and is deflected laterally thereby as it is forced around the fencewire.

The bevels T not only Vfacilitate the closing of the stays upon the fence shawl-wires, as stated, but they also economize the amount of wire used in them, both the points 7 at each eut being` Vformed from a length of the wire no longer than the points themselves.

The tool for closing the stay-eyes is preferably adapted to impart the bend 9 to the fencewire and the bend lO to the stay. At the same time it bends the points around the wire and only needs to be applied in reversed position in order to bend the points 7 in the opposite directions.

Instead of forming the bend l0 in the stay at the time of fastening it to the fence-wires it may be formed at the same time the hooks are formed on the stays, as illustrated at Fig. 5.

I claimw l. In a wire fence, the combination ef the adjacent strand-wires, with stays connecting said strands, each stay consisting of a single length of wire having its extremities beveled as at T, T, the bcvels facing in opposite directions anden opposite sides of the wire, and its ends bent inte hooks adapted to embrace the strand-wires of the fence, and closed into eyes by bending the beveled ends around the strandwires and toward and against the body of the stays, the said bevels, when the eyes are closed, contacting with and partially lapping past the body ofthe stay on opposite sides thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of adjacent parallel wire-fence strands having opposite lateral bends at adjacent points; with stays connect- IOO ing the adjacent bends ofthe strands, each stay of the stay, and retaining the strand-Wires s'e' comprising a single length of Wire having its Curely, substantially as and for the purpose Id ends brent into eyes and its externitilesl beveled described. as at tie eyes eing engage Wit t 1e oppo- Y 5 site bends of adjacent stay-Wires, and Closed JOHN HE ITT with their beveled extremities toward and Vitnesses: against the body of the stay, the said bevels H. M. MUNDAY, being in Contact with and lapped past the body EDW. S. 'EVARTs 

